[cripplecreek]

Our Michigan quarter sucks.

[Auntie Mame]

LOL!

[RayBob]

If you care....

[Alberta's Child]

For all it's faults, Canada has some cool images on its currency. The one on top shown below is the back of the $5 bill.

[T'wit]

And what should they put on a Minnesota coin, an Ole and Lena joke*? Pooh, this is too silly. I love loons. Canada has a loony dollar, as I recall.

*Ole and Lena got married. On their honeymoon trip they were nearing Minneapolis when Ole put his hand on Lena's knee. Giggling, Lena said, "Ole, you can go farther if ya vant to"... so Ole drove to Duluth.

[BluH2o]

The Colorado state quarter isn't scheduled to be released until 2006 ... and their giving MN a hard time (or vice-versa)?

[T'wit]

Here's a loon dollar on eBay. You have to look close to find the mosquitoes and the tipsy fishermen.

[loreldan]

With 637 summits officially recognized as being over 13,000 ft in height, why did Owens choose a generic mountain scene? That's my main problem with our quarter.

[TexasNative2000]

Enough said.

[R. Scott]

One thing I like about the new quarters. The choice of design was left up to The People. Not one single State opted to put a politician on their quarter.

[N. Theknow]

After all, how do you properly depict bone-rattling sub-zero temperatures on the back of a coin?

But - It's a dry cold.

My favorite Minnesota story is my first winter there when I broke my mustache.

[savedbygrace]

So, what, do the governors get kickbacks for every quarter sold, or something? They're just tokens, after all. There's very little intrinsic value in the discs themselves, only in the common agreement to accept them as if they have a certain value.

I don't get the point of state quarters in the first place. Why should I care? Somebody please educate me, since I must be missing something here.

[Ciexyz]

Tee hee.

[Smokin' Joe]

Owens responded to this attack by suggesting a new license plate slogan: "Minnesota - Gateway to North Dakota."

Actually, that's kind of catchy....

[Tunehead54]

Florida's could have been worse - me I would have included a giant mosquito, a palmetto bug (a large FLYING cockroach) and a wood spider - we call them "Florida Spiders" they're so big you can actually HEAR them running across the wall and they're very fast. They're especially endearing when the mama spider is dragging her egg cocoon around - knowing a few hundred thousand more are incubating. Yeesh! Oh yeah - the quarter - sorry about that ... ;-) Y'all come down to Florida - hear?

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[RayBob]

By the way, these were the rejected Colorado designs: